Largest Sunspot In a Quarter Century Spews Flares

schwit1 writes: The largest sunspot seen in about a quarter century has produced another powerful X-class flare today, the sixth in less than a week. "This was the sixth X-class solar flare from NOAA 2192, a record for the number of X-class flares generated by a single group so far this solar cycle. It was also the fourth X-class flare since last Friday, continuing a period of intense flaring activity. This sunspot group has grown again a bit, and maintains its magnetic complexity. A degradation of the HF radio-communication was observed over South-America, the Caribbean, and West-Africa." The last sentence is referring to some radio communications blackouts that have occurred in these areas because of the flares.

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Re:16 posts containing banal "jokes", 0 of any val

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:16 posts containing banal "jokes", 0 of any val

[TheRaven64]

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Re: Quarter Century

[Anonymous Coward]

Sweet I'm going to switch the wording on my resume that I keep updated just in case:

-Has been a Unix/Linux systems administrator for over one-fifth of a century!!

Much better.